The Odes - Horace, Christopher Smart torrent

Category: Classic, Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Rome Latin

Written by Horace, James Michie
Read by Charlton Griffin
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins

The Odes (Latin: Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace. The Odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of Greek originals – Pindar, Sappho and Alcaeus are some of Horace’s models. His genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of Rome in the age of Augustus. The Odes cover a range of subjects – love, friendship, wine, religion, morality, patriotism; poems of eulogy addressed to Augustus and his relations; and verses written on a miscellany of subjects and incidents, including the uncertainty of life, the cultivation of tranquility and contentment, and the observance of moderation or the “golden mean.”

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